Re: CULT: Trashing Irises
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CULT: Trashing Irises
- From: w*
- Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 06:36:53 -0500
- Priority: normal
On 12 May 01, at 22:17, alhbee@aol.com wrote:
>Rebloomers Spirit of Fiji and Fiji
> Dancer have never bloomed and I am thinking of trashing the two. Any
> comments?
>
> Al Bullock
> Sterling, No. Va. zone 7
>
Al, you do what you gotta do.
I am trashing the following rather new irises because they
bloomed! They have been here since their year of introduction.
FOGBOUND because it is a rather colorless, blah iris, nowhere
near the beauty of its parent WISHFUL THINKING. A big
disappointment. I never found the pink mentioned in its description.
CHAMPAGNE FROST because of lack of contrast. It later got rot
and I didn't even treat it . . just let it go.
MANDELA because the form is funky and the color is not even
ordinary.
ENNOBLE because of its bud count of three.
The following has not bloomed, and I have had it two years:
LAUGH LINES
Maybe it is my soil because the other introductions from these
hybridizers were great this year. 2001 was a great bloom season,
except for these and a few others. Funny thing in looking back
over this list, I ordered only one of these irises. Were the others
introduced as extras? Or, do the hybridizers not know my tastes when
it comes to gift irises?
This is not an indictment of the hybridizers of these irises. I grow
tons of their irises and use them in my own lines, but occasionally I
get some I wonder about. It is probably that I am just too picky or
some irises need more TLC than I can give for them to be at their
best.
Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS USA 7/8
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